INTRODUCTION In their article, ‘Gamete donor anonymity and limits on numbers of offspring: the views of three stakeholders’, Margaret K. Nelson, Rosanna Hertz and Wendy Kramer draw on survey data from gamete donors, parents who used gametes to conceive, and donor-conceived offspring in order to understand the position that various stakeholders are likely to hold regarding the regulation of two ...

Infertility affects 20% of couples in Nigeria. Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) offered in Nigeria include in-vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete donation and surrogacy. This cross-sectional questionnaire study aimed at assessing the acceptability of ART to women seeking infertility treatment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Of the 307 respondents, 58.3% were aware of IV...

INTRODUCTION For many donor-conceiving heterosexual parents, the process of deciding whether and what to tell children about their genetic origin is challenging. We hypothesized that incomplete couple agreement about disclosure could be associated with parenting stress. The aim of the study was to investigate: (1) parenting stress levels among heterosexual parents of young children following ga...

question, when, if at all, is it morally wrong to withdraw The case of a sperm donor objecting to the transfer of embryos consent? Arguably, moral questions are always open to interformed from his donation can be likened to disputes over pretation, however, until recently in Victoria, Australia, so too frozen embryos, where the sperm provider and the egg provider was the legal question. This ar...

Background: Infertility affects one-fifth to one-sixth of couples reproductive age. Gamete donation is one option for managing infertility, but it relatively unknown in the developing world. Objectives: To assess Nigerian undergraduate students' knowledge, attitude and willingness participate gamete artificial insemination. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 160 st...

OBJECTIVE To measure Irish opinion on a range of assisted human reproduction (AHR) treatments. METHODS A nationally representative sample of Irish adults (n=1,003) were anonymously sampled by telephone survey. RESULTS Most participants (77%) agreed that any fertility services offered internationally should also be available in Ireland, although only a small minority of the general Irish pop...